Landfill Search Continues For Missing Teen's Body

Day 3 in the search for a missing Sullivan University student's remains is over, and police say they've made progress but still haven't found the body.

Louisville Metro police recruits and forensic specialists have sifted through tons of garbage at a landfill in Medora, Ind., hoping to find the body of 18-year-old Andrew Compton. They expect to resume the search on Friday.

Police said they made significant progress in their search on Thursday and have nearly exhausted the roped off area they created.

The search for Compton's body and evidence related to his death is focused on a half acre of garbage 5 feet deep.

Fifty recruits from Metro Louisville are providing the main manpower for the search.

"We're out there digging, we get trucks dumping trash for us and we just go in their looking for certain specific stuff," said LMPD recruit Youssef Mattiche.

The search is focused on the Medora landfill because 40-year-old Gregory O'Bryan told police Compton died during sex, so he dumped the body in a trash bin near his Louisville apartment. The garbage was then, unknowingly, taken by trash collector Rumpke to the Indiana landfill.

Officials said they have found some items of interest in their search and believe they are searching in the right area.

"If it was my child, I can't imagine what it would be like to lose a child, but if it was my child in there, I'm going to keep looking no matter what. That's why we're staying positive going through each section. It may be a needle in a haystack, but that's what we're going to do," said Lt. Barry Wilkerson of Metro Police.

Detectives said if they and Rumpke officials have exhausted the half acre they are searching, then it will be time to call off the search. That end could come as soon as Friday.

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